Transparent Chennai was recently invited to participate in the Center for Environment Education’s (CEE) annual coastal carnival for kids, which was held at the Bharat Scouts and Guide’s campus on Marina beach. Our focus? To try and provide an interactive display that in the end would highlight the importance of the beach. How did we do this? Through maps of course!

First we pinned down tiled google images of Chennai’s coastline and we asked students to answer in not more than a couple of sentences either one or all of the following questions:

After students had done this they were asked to pin their blurb on the paper map based on where they wanted it to be.

As the day progressed the display built itself and at the end we were left with a collage of blurbs pinned by the students that visited our stall. This resulted in a rich and varied perception map about the coastline.

Parallel to this, we also had students try to locate where they lived on a big map of Chennai city (using TC’s boundary data no less). What we wanted to know was how far have students traveled to be at this event?

This map also built itself as well as the day went on…

The final map looked something like this. It serves as an important indication to the importance of the coastline with students coming from as far as Thirunindravur to attend CEE’s event.

New layer coming up!

- Siddharth Hande

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